The writer explained that the title has two meanings – the foreigner at home, and the foreigner is home, flinging wide the questions of displacement and belonging.
this conversation is vital to our understanding of what it means to be human.” Artists make language, images, sounds to bear witness, to shape beauty and to comprehend. “Art invites us to take a journey from date to information to knowledge to wisdom. “My faith in the world of art is not irrational and it’s not naïve,” Morrison told a Parisian audience. Its centerpiece is Theodore Gericault’s massive 1819 oil painting “The Raft of the Medusa,” created just three years after an actual shipwreck off the coast of Senegal that doomed dozens of 19 th -century passengers from the lower classes. The documentary captures the magisterial Morrison mulling the limits of language in 2006 as she curated an exhibit at the Louvre she also called The Foreigner’s Home. The Nobel laureate in literature has long contemplated her legacy, and the larger meaning of art, society and belonging.Ī moving piece of evidence for this unfurls in The Foreigner’s Home, a feature-length film, making its regional debut at the Cleveland Museum of Art, 35 miles east of Morrison’s childhood town of Lorain, Ohio.
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